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There will be more tit-for-tat scenarios, more struggles for what is perceived as the high ground. One certain sticking point is the amount of money Diana will receive. The figure usually mentioned is $23 million, but whether that will come in a lump sum or an annual dole has yet to be haggled over. Last week the senior royals--the Queen and Prince Charles--attended the memorial ceremony for the Gulf War dead. The regal phalanx was secondary news as papers devoted pages to Diana's latest crisis. That sort of snub inspires the kind of resentment that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRACTURED FAIRY TALE | 3/11/1996 | See Source »

...Eton, William is one of 200 F-Tits, "tit" meaning "squirt" and F denoting the school block inhabited by freshmen. He sleeps in a simple 10-ft. by 7-ft. room above the kitchen; he has his own security man next door. Prince Charles' misery at Gordonstoun is legendary; but Eton's reputation for canings and oppression of younger boys by older ones has faded in recent decades, and William, who had several good friends matriculating with him, was very popular at his previous school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A TEST OF WILLS | 3/11/1996 | See Source »

...fall from grace of a high-born cross-breed," the Moor notes, although the past "grace" he mentions consists largely of Da Gama insanities, grudges and general bad behavior. "What an epidemic of getting-even runs through my tale, what a malaria cholera typhoid of eye-for-tooth and tit-for-tat! No wonder I have ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: WRITING TO SAVE HIS LIFE | 1/15/1996 | See Source »

...next morning his breakfast coffee dribbled down his chin and his words turned to mush. These symptoms of a mild stroke quickly cleared, but not the cause: cardiac arrhythmias that required the planting of a pacemaker in his chest. West variously refers to this retrofit as his "titanium tit" and that "little lead soldier ... making a small battuta on my suet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VERBAL MEDICINE | 4/10/1995 | See Source »

...civilian representative in Bosnia, Yasushi Akashi, preferring negotiation, vetoes them. When air strikes are called again and finally approved by the U.N. bureaucrats, NATO planes are foiled by weather, and a British Sea Harrier jet is shot down. The pinprick attacks fail even to achieve the minimal logic of tit for tat. They become tit for tat -- when the weather is good and Akashi is in the mood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.N. Obsession | 5/9/1994 | See Source »

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